Tsjusterboksem, 1998-2026

This video installation displays a clay depiction of the 'Sintrumtsjerke' and an arbiter house, both located in Donkerbroek, gradually disintegrating as time progresses.

The work grew out of gathering archival material and personal stories connected to Donkerbroek, alongside field recordings made in and around the village. I became interested in the way familiar places can carry layers of memory while continuing to change, disappear, or become unfamiliar.

The clay structures were recorded as they collapsed, with these sounds combined with field recordings and sounds produced using a Korg M1 VST plugin. The resulting soundscape accompanies the slow disintegration of the buildings, bringing together the physical process of decay with the sounds of the place itself.

For me, the work became a way of cherishing the passing of time and the strange feeling of returning to places that are familiar, yet no longer quite the same.